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'Money Bags' Calendar

No matter how thoroughly we fact-check them, some claims never go away.

by Snopes Staff, Aug. 7, 2010


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Certain stories on Snopes.com never die off. Either they show up in search data slow and steady, or they spontaneously resurrect themselves as trends in our inbox so many times that we don't know what else we can add to the reporting to finally take them down.

Zombies have head wounds. Vampires have wooden stakes. Ghosts have exorcisms.

Misinformation has ... immortality, apparently. Below are some of our most popular rumors that never die.

Good time to remind yourselves: Always Snopes before you share!


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